The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-02
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money and Manageme emit
About Various Lines.

A party of railroad contractors arrived at
Americas Friday from Lafayette ALA and
left on the Americas Preston and Lumpkin
for Coney. They carried about thirty hands
out with them and will shortly begin work
on sixteen-mile section of. the proposed
Macon and Florida railroad, in Dooly
county. All of their camp and working
outfit has been ordered and they think that
they will have force of 500 hands at work
GU that section this week.
The railroad bridge at Ormond, Fla, over
the Halifax river, will be $500 feet long,
twelve feet wide, with turnouts each
side of the draw; the railroad track Will be
in the center, q sidewalk on each side, and
driveway in the center, ratings, etc. The
draw isto be eighty feet, and when open have
a passage for vessels of thirty-eight feet.
The cost of the bridge is expected to be
about SIP 900. There has been some delay
in getting the piling, but as soon as the
track to the river is graded properly they
will bring all the timber for the bridge di-
rect by rail The framing for the whole
bridge, including the draw, is completed.
Mr.. U J. White, President of the st. Johns
and Halifax railroad, thinks he will be able
to run excursion trains direct from Holles-
ton to the beach at Ormond in September,
this fall
"It has now been settled that the connec-
ton between the Union railway and the
Lookout Mountain railroad will be made at
Poevlle," says the Chattanooga Daily
Times "A branch of the Union railway
will be extended from the proposed extern
sion to Blowing Springs, a short distance
beyond Oak Hills, near Capt. McCraths
farm A depot will be located there, and
the cars conveyed thither from the Union
depot will be attached to the engine on the
Lookout Mountain railway and be conveyed
direct to the top without change. The ser
pentine road on the mountain side will be
about six and half miles in length. AT one
point on the line heavy stone wall has
been built seveuty-five feet high and several
hundred feet in length. 1t is said the
grade will be about four feet to the hun
dred, and that train can make the trip
from the Union depot to the top OF the
mountain in thirty-fve minutes"
The clerks in the traffic department of the
Florida Railway and Navigation Company
presented Col. +. B. Papy Saturday, at
Jacksonville, with cane as token OF their
esteem and as an evidence of their appre-
citation of his kindness and consideration of
them which they have received during
period covering the past six years. The
cane, which was very handsome one, was
an ebony stick with a massive gold head.
1t had the following engraved on it: "a
token of esteem to Mr.. +. B. Papy, on his
retiring from the F. r. and n Co, from his
clerks, Aug. /, 1887" With the severing Of
Col. Papys services with the Florida Rail
way and Navigation, he gives up a work in
which he has been engaged for twenty eight
years continuously. During this time he
has never had one day of furlough. Mr..
james Menzies has been appointed by Re-
ceiver H. r. Duval assistant general freight
agent, and assumes control of the freight
department. Mr. Menzies is well fitted for
this position, having had a continued expe
rience of about fifteen years in railroad
work, although he is quite young man.
He was employed in the general freight
Office of the Grand Trunk Line of Canada
for six or seven years. From there he went
to the Louisville and Nashville railroad for
a short period and from there to Jackson
vile. He took the position at once as chief
clerk in the office of Col. +. B. Papy. The
formal transfer took place yesterday.